idca

was it clive myrie who was saying that the classical music establishment is a bit insular and elitist and they all lost their shit at him, there's a very specific sore point i think

God, has it only been two days of “how dare you suggest that my artform no longer has mass appeal. My heavily subsidised concert had a full house of 55-65 year olds and I earn as much as €26k some years”? It’s felt longer.

would you believe i didn't say prince andrew because i thought i'd have people up in my mentions being all "THAT'S NOT HIS NAME!!!!"

started the day reading the andrew mw piece cos in an age of grubbiness and degradation why not just have a bit more

a #11 hit! put some respect on the GRL name!

Like, you should never find out which boyfriend they’re about, rookie error

I never think about the narrative songs as part of “the narrative”, they’re much better for it

time to fire up the carrier pigeons 🐦

Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do YouTube video by Taylor Swift

#TheTenX5 day 35.
16. taylor swift - look what you made me do
🇺🇸
released - august 2017
charts - uk #1, us #1

thought about picking a more populist choice but I got smarter I got harder in the nick of time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmd...

the author of this piece is not saying that twitter is better, they've had enough of it. they're saying the bluesky is boring and they have a point

increasingly less so, before the sale i was just "i hate the guardian and it won't be any better", now i'm more "even a saturday guardian is probably better than this and i hate saturday guardian"

i agree that it's probably wrong on the specifics but that tone of cosy, pofaced earnestness feels hauntingly familiar about the bedrock of political posting on the site

tbf the news section is usually alright, if a bit one note

i know, i've been looking to offload it for ages, the comment section esp has been a binfire for years and it's taken another weird authoritarian turn under the new editor. but i can't find another nominally left paper that's any better and it passes the time *sigh*

By the end of 2025, Bluesky’s daily user base was about a 10th of the size of its originator. Really, my Twitter journey should end with a migration to Bluesky, where all the other comrades have fled. Like most journalists, I have a grudging, inactive account. Posting on Bluesky doesn’t feel like posting on Twitter. It feels a little contrived and a little too watchful and, for all its improvements, simply less fun. Sometimes, posting on Bluesky feels like getting stuck at a protest behind that block of gen X dads who are all holding signs that read: “I am really quite cross about this” and “Make tea not war.” You can’t genuinely enjoy a social media app where people still honestly believe there’s going to be another Brexit referendum.

reading a bit about the death of twitter in the observer and this had me howling

wasn't it harper valley PTA i think? would have been placenames

professor...of jelcore!

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼
#MusicChallenge 🎶
day 9 - a song about young people
guided by voices - teenage fbi

you're still being followed 🕵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fm8...

lmao

picture of selena gomez smiling, with the caption "how selena gomez is helping to stop nz's possum problem"

i hope she isn't going to...kill em with kindness! </quip>

also the use of "radical" is very telling, you can just put it in front of any old bullshit now

"we must not retreat into the comfort zone of any one part of our coalition" i say, before i reach very deliberately for a very specific nostalgic fantasy in order to smother any electoral chances we might have had

Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Official Video) YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.

#TheTenX5 day 34
17. owen pallett - in conflict
🇨🇦
released - may 2014 on the album 'in conflict'

owen pallett 🤝 guy at job centre

"i have no statement for yr
benefit(s), young man"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoDl...

this is podcast isn't it lmao

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼
#MusicChallenge 🎶
8. a. song about old people
randy newman - old man on the farm (1977)

these vignettes on little criminals are always a bit unsettling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hQU...

"check out what poptimist bluesky is saying about zara larsson!! it'll blow yr mind" is obviously coming and there's nothing we can do to stop it

this is her best early album, the iconic brunette era

watching my marion keyes drama and one of the sisters is an obnoxious mess, will this cause wider familial strife as she cuts a swathe of destruction thru her loved ones?! who can say!

i think that it was such a narrow thing that didn't end up dragging out so no one got that bothered about it, but absolutely the news was very animated, lots of fancy cameras (very influential on the day today)